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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:25:55 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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Subject: Re: [patch] "HT scheduler", sched-2.5.63-B3
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Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 16:12, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > - The longstanding problem wherein a kernel build makes my X desktop
> >   unusable is 90% fixed - it is still possible to trigger stalls, but
> >   they are less severe, and you actually have to work at it a bit to
> >   make them happen.
> 
> That is odd, because I do not see any changes in here that would improve
> interactivity.  This looks to be pretty much purely the HT stuff.
> 
> Andrew, if you drop this patch, your X desktop usability drops?

hm, you're right.  It's still really bad.  I forgot that I was using distcc.

And I also forgot that tbench starves everything else only on CONFIG_SMP=n.
That problem remains with us as well.


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